This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Ununnilium: The Silver Age Hawkman was an intergalactic police officer. ``v
Morgan Wick: Didn't he pose as something like this? And wasn't the Golden Age Hawkman's profession something different before the Silver Age version got retconned to heck and aspects of him had to be tacked on to the Golden Age version to save peoples' fond memories of that version?
Ununnilium: No and no. The Golden Age version did have some aspects of the Silver Age version glued on during his recent revival, but they're all related to that version's home planet.
Darmok: Two possibilities, but I'm not certain about either so I thought I'd put them here.
- Alan Grant, from Jurassic Park.
- The entire cast of Time Team. (Basically a "Speed Archaelogy" show in the UK.)
Robert: Time Team, which has a page, is pretty much the opposite of this trope: the real thing as opposed to the hollywood version.
Darmok: I disagree, to a certain extent. Time Team archaeologists generally have only three days to carry out all of their field research. (Even the page you link to explains this.) While they may be qualified academics, working to such (artificial) time constraints is not how the majority of archaeology is done. Excavating a site is painstaking and labourious because it must be done correctly the first time.
Seth: Most Time Team digs that find anything important are picked up by actual teams after they leave but i still wouldn't call them Adventurer Archaeologists they are more Entertainment Archaeologists. But since they are the only ones it isnt trope worthy.
Robert: Working to time constraints is pretty common, especially on urban sites, where the builders may be waiting for them to finish (And, Darmok, I do know what the Time Team page says. I wrote it.) All the archaeologists are fully qualified professionals, so they are an actual team doing professional-quality work. It is dramatised, of course (unusually short time limits) but only lightly, not to the point of being purely entertainment. It's part of the same genre as science and history documentaries -- educational material for adults presented in an entertaining way. Entertainment archaeologists would be frothier. As for being adventurer archaelogists, they've never once found so much as a death trap.
Darmok: Yeah, ok. You've convinced me the members of Time Team are not Adventure Archaeologists. (I did put it here because I wasn't sure and wanted to discuss it first, after all. :-)
A Bit Vague: I added a quote I thought was appropriate to the top of the page.
Silent Hunter: The entire link sums up this trope nicely.
Seth: Not to mention being frikkin hilarious.
Fire Walk: Someone called L removed the quote for some reason (probably quote bloat). I've added a link to the page under the film section.
Morgan Wick: How is Conan an example? Was that stuck on the wrong trope?
